Everything looked the same. Throckmorton Street...Lovelock's Pharmacy, the dime store...and everyone seemed the same. Aunt Aleda. Sheriff Grivett. But the town was dying slowly and changing secretly. On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell discovered an insidious, horrifying plot. Silently, subtly, almost imperceptibly, alien life-forms were taking over the bodies and minds of his neighbors, his friends, his family, the woman he loved - the world as he knew it... First published in 1955 and made into a blockbuster film in 1978, this is the revised and updated edition issued to coincide with the film's release. Please note: this is not a novelisation of the film; it is Finney's original novel.